Bantams & regular chickens

[bluedawg]

Can Bantams & regular chickens be raised together or will the Bantams be picked on?
-M

 

[baldie]

I don't know too much except about my own chickens, I have 3 bantams with 40+ regular sized chickens and they are doing great, no problems at all. I think they'll be fine!! Mine have been together since they were a day old and they are almost 24 wks old now. Chrissie

 

[MagsC]

If they are raised together from a very young age, its easier. Though I have integrated my smaller chicks with a couple of standard chicks and they are getting along well. I have heard that is not always the case so I suppose it was dumb luck.

 

[CATRAY44]

Mind do just fine with the standards... In some cases they even push the bigger ones around!

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

I agree. I raise the chicks together and then seperate them when they are adults. The main reason I seperated mine was because my great big Patridge Rock rooster insisted on having his way with my little silkie hen. He smushed her to the ground every time. Plus I needed an excuse to build another chicken house / run.

For a while, the head rooster in my standard yard, was a bantam cochin roo.

Need more chickens......

 

[bluedawg]

Thanks Everyone! I plan tot have a rooster so I have decided not to get Batams.
-M

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Ditto to what Threeboys said. All sizes of my hens got along. The honking big rooster liked to sit on the tiny girls though so I seperated them out. Actually a couple of my banty hens were pretty high up on the pecking order.

Good luck!

 

[lockedhearts]

I have Bantams in with regular size. Bantams are like small dogs in their minds they are 10 ft tall and bullet proof

I will be seperating my Bantam hen and rooster only because I want to sell and incubate their eggs.

 

[JennsPeeps]

My flock is all layers (no rooster). There's no problem keeping banties & standards together. The lone banty is a month older than the others, about 1/4 their size, and definitely holds her own. She sometimes pecks at the bigger girls when they get in her way. She's pretty feisty!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I have raised bantams and standards together just fine. I had my sebrights in with 2 deleware hens, and 1 barred rock hen, and 1 EE hen. I wouldnt put a standard rooster in with bantams, as my brahma's try to kill my sebrights.